SYS-CON Events announced today that Adobe Systems will be a "Platinum Sponsor" of the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, which will take place on October 2-4, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. In addition, Adobe's Jeremy Chone and Christophe Coenraets will deliver two of the conference sessions.

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium.  For more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime.

View Christophe Coenraets' Real-World AJAX presentation

As director of product management and strategy in the Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit at Adobe Systems, Jeremy Chone focuses on the Flex and ColdFusion product families. Mr. Chone is responsible for defining product strategy and a roadmap to held Adobe establish itself as the leading Rapid and Rich Internet Application platform provider. Mr. Chone joined Adobe in 2006 following six years at Oracle, where he served most recently as director of the Oracle Open Client engineering team, focused on working with the open community to develop the next generation of cross-platform collaborative client applications. Mr. Chone had previously headed the Suite Product Management team, which defined and promoted the first two versions of Oracle Collaboration Suite. Before that, Mr. Chone performed multiple management functions in the Oracle Mobile Division Group, including managing the development team that created the OracleMobile Online Studio and the Hosted Mobile Platform. As mobile architect and member of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Mr. Chone also worked on extending mobile platform with W3C XForms to ease the development of multi-modal and occasionally connected mobile application.

Christophe Coenraets currently works as a Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe. Before joining Adobe, Christophe was an evangelist at Macromedia, focusing on Rich Internet Applications and Enterprise integration. Prior to Macromedia, he was the head of Java and J2EE Technical Evangelism at Sybase, where he started working on Java Enterprise projects in 1996. Before joining Sybase in the US, Christophe held different positions at Powersoft in Belgium, including Principal Consultant for PowerBuilder, and Manager of the Professional Services organization. Before joining Powersoft, Christophe worked as a developer and architect on several retail and BPM projects. He has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 10 years.